Jazz keyboard legend Chick Corea, a resident of Clearwater, died Feb. 9 of "a rare form of cancer only discovered very recently." The announcement was posted Thursday afternoon on the 23-time Grammy Award-winner's Facebook page. He was 79.
A lot of political dominoes are teetering in Pinellas County as U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist considers running for governor. But the fellow who held that seat before Crist says in the latest episode of Political Party with Adam Smith that his eyes are squarely on the governor's mansion, and not his old south Pinellas seat.